Aisha Taymour

The poet Aisha Taimur is the daughter of Ismail Pasha Taimur. Her father was close to the ruling court. She was a contemporary of even the Khedives Ismail and Tawfiq. She was born in 1840 AD in the city of Cairo. She tended to love learning to read and write. Her father made her forget this tendency, so he brought her two teachers, one of whom taught her calligraphy, the Qur'an, and jurisprudence, and the other taught her morphology, grammar, and the Persian language. She has completed memorizing the Holy Qur'an. She married Mr. Tawfiq Zadeh in 1854 AD when she was fourteen years old. She devoted herself to marital affairs, then she longed for literature and science, so she excelled and mastered poetry. She learned the Turkish language, which she learned from her mother and father, and wrote three collections of poetry in Arabic, Turkish, and Persian. She wrote two prose books: "e;Nata'iq al-Awal"e; and "e;The Mirror of Contemplation of Things."e; Mrs. Aisha Taymur died in 1902 at the age of sixty-two. Mai Ziadeh discussed her biography, and the difficulties and challenges she faced in that era when women did not enjoy a degree of freedom and enlightenment.